Republicans' Vicious and Immoral Health Care Bill Is Just Part of a Sinister Long Game [View all]

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Republicans' Vicious and Immoral Health Care Bill Is Just Part of a Sinister Long Game
The GOP is employing a strategy developed by Machiavelli and perfected by Goebbels.
By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet May 5, 2017

REPUBLICANS WHOLE INTENT IS TO SAVE THE 1%ers THE CAPITAL GAINS TAX INCREASE UNDER OBAMA.

The Plan-
1- the Goebbles BIG LIE.
2- Complain when the Senate 'waters it down' a bit." Play the 'victim.'
3- in 2018 Attack every democrat for 'obstructing the great republican plan

The proof that this strategy could work in this case is that it’s already being used – with success – to obscure the true reason Republicans are trying so hard to “repeal and replace” Obamacare.
The only hope for Democrats to disrupt this process is to challenge the Big Lie and call it exactly that. The message needs to be simple (“It’s a Big Lie – it’s really about cutting taxes on billionaires!”), repeated over and over again, and amplified by every media available, as most of the corporate TV media won’t report on this in any honest way.

The entire agenda of the GOP has been, since the Reagan revolution (and, arguably, since the election of Harding, with the exception of Eisenhower), to exclusively serve the interests of the top 1 percent, while bringing along the rubes with “god, gays, and guns.” And Democrats, while tacking toward the interest of the working class, need to point that out at every opportunity.

“Trumpcare – The Big Lie” could be turned into the political equivalent of a bumper sticker and put everywhere. And the lies from the Rose Garden need to be challenged now, tomorrow, and every single day for the next 2 years by every elected Democrat in America by pointing out the reality of what’s happening.

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